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It’s salad time again!

It’s that time again when our go-to meals will be salad and soup, soup and sandwich and of course fresh veggies and fruits found at local vegetable stands. We are both ready to hit the Dane County Farmer’s Market again, the outdoor market started a couple of weeks ago. I don’t mind saying that it’s been quite a balancing act trying to tend to my starter plants- carrots, tomatoes, beets and lettuce along with full-time work (busy season beginning to wind down) and the last couple of weeks of school- heavy course work with a project winding down and exams to study for. Let me not forget spring volunteer activities, vet appointments on my day off and spring cleaning. Whew, I’m beat. Friends are planning a graduation party for me and I’m not allowed to bring anything, unless of course its my spinach salad. Which I’m happy to oblige. We eat a lot of spinach, we throw it in scrambled eggs, make several different types of salads with it, use it for spinach and strawberry smoothies and just about every soup and stew I make. The recipe for the spinach salad above, which I will be bringing to my grad party, is here. I feel I’m a bit behind posting to my blogs, so today a rare weekday off I am catching up on posting, instagram and some correspondence with my 3rd cousin regarding family history research we are both working on. I mentioned soup and I’m going to share a delicious recipe for Dutch Vermicelli soup. We eat a lot of it in this household. I first learned of this soup from my mother-in-law and I’ve grown to love it over the years. I skip eating the little meatballs (I use ground beef) but I do make them for my husband. It’s a soup he has been eating all his life.

That’s about it for what’s been going on here. I hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather we’ve had the last couple of days. I bought a bunch of bedding plants-impatiens, begonias, geraniums, and cosmos just to name a few that I’ve been having to bring in at night still. Soon though I will transfer them to bigger pots and it’ll be warm enough for them to stay outside all night. This weekend we are going to our first ever Badger rowing event. The Wisconsin Badgers Men and Women teams will be rowing at Devil’s Lake this weekend. So excited! Until next time have a great rest of the week! Source